Runway is an applied AI research company building multimodal AI systems, model deployment infrastructure,

and products that leverage AI for multimedia content.

They're among a handful of high-profile video generation startups and have raised impressive

amounts of funding from investors such as Google, Nvidia, and Salesforce Ventures.

The company recently released their Gen 3 Alpha model, which is

trained jointly on videos and images, and will power text to video, image to video, and text

to image tools. Joel Cortler is Runway's group product manager. He joins the podcast with

Gregor Van to talk about runway and the technology the company is developing. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist and is the founder and CTO of MailPass.

Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering

companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

Hi Joel, welcome to Software Engineering Daily. Thank you for having me.

Yeah, Joel, it's great to have you here today. You come in with the company Runway,

and the platform runway. We're going to hear all about Runway very soon. It's in the LLM AI space,

just to kind of cover that one off.

And I only say that now because I think hearing about sort of your history before runway

will be kind of interesting.

Sure.

What was the journey to joining runway?

Yeah, of course.

And we'll cover this more in depth later, but a runway is not in the LLM space.

It's more in sort of the like generative AI diffusion model space.

That's a great distinction.

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